The situation is analogous to music generated by a computer program. The
composer/programmer would own the copyright. (The person would own the DNA,
I suppose.) :-)

Steve

>From: "Nelda Percival" <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: Re: [DNA] What does a Y-DNA sound like?
>Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 20:41:04 -0500
>
>Hi,
>Very interesting, I listened to all of them, some having an interesting
>musical pattern... The article was interesting too... Gee if someone puts
>your Y-DNA to music.. will you own the music (dna donner since it is
>created by your DNA) or will the music belong to the software creator??
>Because the software creates the music it just follows the pattern of your
>DNA...LOL
>
>I bet there is going to be some new laws on copyrights about music/dna
>written...LOL
>
>BY the way the music sounded very peaceful...
>
>Nelda
>Nelda's websites -
>http://freepages.folklore.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/
>
>
>
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: Cooley <>
>Reply-To:
>To: "+ List" <>
>Subject: [DNA] What does a Y-DNA sound like?
>Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 16:44:05 -0700
>
>What does a Y-DNA sound like? Now you can answer that question for
>yourself,
>using a novel molecule-to-melody conversion scheme that could open up new
>frontiers in biomedical research as well as computer-generated music. ...
>
>The full article is at
>http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/05/04/181623.aspx -- you can
>listen to Y-DNA there.
>
>-Don
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